Transferring iPhoto Images Laptop to External HD?

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How can I get all of my old images from iPhoto on my laptop (Tiger 10.4.5) to my external HD (Tiger 10.4.5), without erasing the images already on the external HD?

I tried dragging all of the 3.5GB of files from the laptop to the external HD, and when I open up iPhoto, none of the images appear. I notice that some of the files have the exact same name, so I can't replace them, or I'll loose all of the images on the external HD.

Help!!!
 
ecirtap said:
sorry i can't give you the direct link (i don't have time to check right now), but i know that this topic was covered on macosxhints.com - just do a search there.

patrice
http://www.patriceschneider.com/apple-osx/blog/
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The only solution I can find for now is to resave each picture, one at a time, into a folder. Then, when I'm finished, I'll try to import the new images into iPhoto. This is going to take me several months to finish this task! At least I'll have all of my images archived, even if I can't get them into iPhoto. I can still work with the pictures to upload to my website, send by e-mail, or send to Wal-Mart to print them out.

Thanks again for you ideas.
 
To export all of your photos, go to your library, go to Edit -> Select All, then go to File -> Export. Choose the desired quality, etc, then choose the save location as a folder on your external hard drive. Then, on your hard drive, drag the folder of images into iPhoto, and it will import them.

This will work for you, right? I couldn't really tell what your current situation was in your post - I'm assuming you have all your photos intact on iPhoto - is this the case?
 
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